I think it's "the" SHAC website.
http://www.shac.net/In The Dissident Voice a few days ago, David Sugar described their activity:
But this case was never about domestic terrorism. This case is about free speech and the right to protest corporations. The indictment states that the seven are alleged to have run a website that REPORTED ON protests aimed at pressuring investors, stockbrokers and customers of the animal experimentation facility Huntington Life Sciences to divest from the facility. The indictment alleges the seven conspired to encourage the disruption of commerce at HLS. Indeed, if we take what the government interpretation of the AEP act at face value, to define domestic terrorism as any third party action that limits commerce, whether criminal in method or not, and no matter how peaceful, then perhaps one day, for example, a Christian coalition group who choose to run a boycott campaign against a company and their sponsors may also find themselves prosecuted as terrorists. This case is a threat to the very freedoms of ALL Americans.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June05/Sugar0606.htmAmerica's War on Speech and the SHAC 7 Trial
by David Sugar
June 6, 2005
(Revised and expanded June 7)
On June 1st, they came to Trenton bearing the first amendment, placards of mutilated animals, and chants. They include people who range from ever-dangerous vegan teens to violent Manhattan insurance executives. Some brought their toddlers, who no doubt were organizing a chemical weapons attack. These were after all America's newest and most dangerously violent hardcore #1 domestic terrorist threat: Animal Rights Activists. Seven members of an Animal Rights group known as SHAC (Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty) are on trial as "Animal Enterprise Terrorists," each facing 23 years imprisonment and perhaps a potential ticket for future Guantánamos, all for the dangerous and violent act of publishing a web site!
These violent terrorists are an orderly group. Mostly white, mainly middle class, these terrorists could be mistaken for anyone, your neighbor, your friends, in any suburban community in the U.S. They remain orderly even as police bearing Kevlar armor place barricades in front of them. But the government says these people are violent and extremely dangerous, in fact the most violent and dangerous people in America today. The same government that said there were WMDs in Iraq and still claims Saddam Hussein and Osama were allies to promote a "revenge war."
What have these SHAC activists done, you may wonder, to be labeled by the FBI as America's most dangerous terrorist threat. Apparently it involves a lot of public protesting and chants. We all know how dangerous speech can be. But here is what they themselves say: "In 4 short years SHAC has brought one of the worlds largest animal testing labs to its knees driving it $85 million into debt, getting it kicked off the New York and London Stock Exchanges, and making HLS a horrifying household name around the world."
The SHAC 7 defendants are actually a part of a specific group of animal rights activists that explicitly targets Huntington Life Sciences (HLS), a company that practices animal vivisection, through the use of a direct action campaign against HLS, and those companies that do business with it. The SHAC 7 defendants, the ones actually charged with terrorism, only ran the advocacy web site which publishes information, and are not themselves charged with participating in these direct actions.
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